Home scenes: or, Tavistock and its vicinity

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Seite 37 Let us look at those umbrageous limes near dipping their bright green leaves into
the foaming stream. Saw you ever a prettier picture than that rocky river would
make, with its fringing wood, and sister font, and old Abbey walls? It has afforded
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Seite 39 ... left a beautiful valley, which breaks upon the view, formed by the windings of
the Tavy. The rocks near Harts-hole jut out from amidst some short coppice on
one side of the vale—on the other we see the light graceful foliage of Birch-wood
—a ...

Seite 42 The same overhanging woods on a smaller scale, the same green fields between
, and a mimic Tavy sparkling and dancing on to supply the Mount Tavy pond, and
then speeding apace to join the greater river. Retracing our steps, we proceed ...

Seite 46 ... edge with thickly entangled wood. Being moted scramblers we were tempted to
turn back, and try the hidden recesses of “the sylvan shades” which were easily
gained by wading through marshes cunningly concealed by the shining foliage.

Seite 52 ... So their daily task they ply. Meanwhile the Abbot has gained the spot, Where a
bending vale with beauty fraught, Concealed by its verdure the magic grot, Close
by the rushing stream. TAVISTOCK AND ITS WICINITY. Thick woods arising on ...

Seite 183 - Here lies, in horizontal position, the outside case of GEORGE ROUTLEIGH, watchmaker ; Whose abilities in that line were an honour to his profession. Integrity was the Mainspring, and prudence the Regulator, of all the actions of his life.

Seite 183 - Hand never stopped till he had relieved distress. So nicely regulated were all his motions, that he never went wrong, except when set a-going by people who did not know his Key : even then he was easily set right again. He had the art of disposing his time so well. that his hours glided away in one continual round of pleasure and delight, till an unlucky minute put a period to his existence. He departed this life Nov.

Seite 173 - This great tower was the palace of the prince, prelate, or baron, to whom the castle belonged, ana the residence of the constable or governor. Under ground were dismal dark vaults, for the confinement of prisoners, which made it sometimes be called the dungeon.

Seite 22 - This county, as it is spacious, so it is populous, and very laborious, rough, and unpleasant to strangers travelling those ways, which are cumbersome and uneven, amongst rocks and stones, painful for man and horse; as they can best witness who have made trial thereof. For be they never so well mounted upon horses out of other countries, when they have travelled one journey in these parts, they can, in respect of ease of travel, forbear a second.

Seite 33 - Those works of art or of nature, which are usually the motives of our travels, are often overlooked and neglected, if they happen to lie within our reach ; whether it be that we are naturally less inquisitive concerning those things which are near us, while our curiosity is excited by remote objects ; or because the easiness of gratifying a desire is always sure to damp it ; or, perhaps, that we defer, from time to time, viewing what we know we have an opportunity of seeing whenever we...

Seite 220 - ... side, and rooms over the passage, which was closed with thick folding doors of oak, often plated with iron, and with an iron portcullis or grate let down from above. Within this outward wall was a large open space or court, called in the largest and most perfect castles, the outer bayle or ballium, in which stood commonly a church or chapel.